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                                    JOEL



Chapter 1

1   The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.
2   Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land.
    Hath this been in your days, or even in the days of your fathers?
3   Tell ye your children of it, and let your children tell their
    children, and their children another generation.
4   That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that
    which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the
    cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
5   Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine,
    because of the new wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.
6   For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number,
    whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a
    great lion.
7   He hath laid my vine waste, and barked my fig tree: he hath made it
    clean bare, and cast it away; the branches thereof are made white.
8   Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her
    youth.
9   The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of
    the Lord; the priests, the Lord's ministers, mourn.
10  The field is wasted, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted: the
    new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.
11  Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the
    wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
12  The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languisheth; the pomegranate
    tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all the trees of the
    field, are withered: because joy is withered away from the sons of men.
13  Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the
    altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the
    meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of
    your God.
14  Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all
    the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry
    unto the Lord.
15  Alas for the day! for the day of the Lord is at hand, and as a
    destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
16  Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from
    the house of our God?
17  The seed is rotten under their clods, the garners are laid desolate,
    the barns are broken down; for the corn is withered.
18  How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because
    they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.
19  O Lord, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures
    of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the
    field.
20  The beasts of the field cry also unto thee: for the rivers of waters
    are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the
    wilderness.

Chapter 2

1   Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain:
    let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord
    cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
2   A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick
    darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a
    strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more
    after it, even to the years of many generations.
3   A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth:  the
    land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate
    wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
4   The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as
    horsemen, so shall they run.
5   Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap,
    like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a
    strong people set in battle array.
6   Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall
    gather blackness.
7   They shall run like mighty men; they shall climb the wall like men of
    war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not
    break their ranks:
8   Neither shall one thrust another; they shall walk every one in his
    path: and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
9   They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall,
    they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows
    like a thief.
10  The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble:  the
    sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their
    shining:
11  And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is
    very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day of the
    Lord is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
12  Therefore also now, saith the Lord, turn ye even to me with all your
    heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:
13  And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord
    your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great
    kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.
14  Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind
    him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God?
15  Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
16  Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders,
    gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom
    go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
17  Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch
    and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not
    thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them:
    wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
18  Then will the Lord be jealous for his land, and pity his people.
19  Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will
    send you corn, and wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith:
    and I will no more make you a reproach among the heathen:
20  But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive
    him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea,
    and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up,
    and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.
21  Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the Lord will do great
    things.
22  Be not afraid, ye beasts of the field: for the pastures of the
    wilderness do spring, for the tree beareth her fruit, the fig tree and
    the vine do yield their strength.
23  Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God:
    for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to
    come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the
    first month.
24  And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the vats shall overflow
    with wine and oil.
25  And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the
    cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which
    I sent among you.
26  And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of
    the Lord your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you:  and my people
    shall never be ashamed.
27  And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the
    Lord your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.
28  And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit
    upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your
    old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
29  And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will
    I pour out my spirit.
30  And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and
    fire, and pillars of smoke.
31  The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
    before the great and the terrible day of the Lord come.
32  And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of
    the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be
    deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord
    shall call.

Chapter 3

1   For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again
    the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,
2   I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the
    valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and
    for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and
    parted my land.
3   And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an
    harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
4   Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the
    coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye
    recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon
    your own head;
5   Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into
    your temples my goodly pleasant things:
6   The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold
    unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
7   Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them,
    and will return your recompence upon your own head:
8   And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the
    children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people
    far off: for the Lord hath spoken it.
9   Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty
    men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up:
10  Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears:
    let the weak say, I am strong.
11  Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye heathen, and gather yourselves
    together round about: thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O
    Lord.
12  Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat:
    for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.
13  Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe: come, get you down;
    for the press is full, the vats overflow; for their wickedness is
    great.
14  Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the
    Lord is near in the valley of decision.
15  The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw
    their shining.
16  The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from
    Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord will
    be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
17  So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my
    holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no
    strangers pass through her any more.
18  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop
    down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of
    Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the
    house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
19  Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness,
    for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed
    innocent blood in their land.
20  But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to
    generation.
21  For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord
    dwelleth in Zion.